[2] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Kuwaya had a population of 2,025 in the 2004 census.

[1] In 1596 Kuwaya appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jawlan Sharqi in the Qada of Hauran.

[3] In 1884 American archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher described Kuwaya as "a few miserable huts of mud and stone" on the northern slopes of the Yarmuk river valley.

Kuwaya's environs contained pomegranate gardens, vineyards, farmlands, and springs amid scattered ruins.

[4] Schumacher noted the Manadhirah "cultivated with much industry" the village lands, growing barley and wheat on the slopes and lemons, grapes, pomegranates and olives closer to the village site and at the mouth of the nearby Wadi al-Zayyatin stream.